ATP & WTA Second-Serve Points Won Leaders 2026

Second-serve points won is the share of points a player wins after missing their first serve. It is the most exposed position in tennis: the returner knows a safer ball is coming and steps in.

Second-serve points won correlates with hold percentage more tightly than raw serve speed does, because every service game a player is broken in ran through a second serve somewhere. Players near the top of this board either hit a genuinely aggressive second ball or defend the rally that follows it unusually well.

ATP second-serve points won leaders 2026

Jannik Sinner leads the ATP with 58.7% of second-serve points won in 2026, measured over 47 qualifying matches — the most of any qualified ATP player this season. Ben Shelton (57.6%) and Carlos Alcaraz (57.3%) are next. 89 ATP players qualify, and the median of that field is 50.8%.

ATP second-serve points won leaders, 2026 season — top 50 of 89 qualified players, ranked by 2nd serve won %, with the match sample behind each figure.
#	Player	Country	2nd serve won %	Matches
1	Jannik Sinner	ITA	58.7%	47
2	Ben Shelton	USA	57.6%	44
3	Carlos Alcaraz	ESP	57.3%	30
4	Joao Fonseca	BRA	56.8%	30
5	Alexander Zverev	GER	56.6%	63
6	Arthur Fils	FRA	56.4%	40
7	Casper Ruud	NOR	56.2%	31
8	Thiago Agustin Tirante	ARG	55.1%	28
9	Taylor Fritz	USA	55.0%	39
10	Tommy Paul	USA	54.9%	43
11	Tomas Martin Etcheverry	ARG	54.9%	33
12	Alex De Minaur	AUS	54.4%	43
13	Alexei Popyrin	AUS	54.4%	21
14	Karen Khachanov	—	54.2%	37
15	Dino Prizmic	CRO	53.9%	18
16	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	ESP	53.8%	27
17	Pablo Carreno Busta	ESP	53.7%	17
18	Novak Djokovic	SRB	53.6%	21
19	Tallon Griekspoor	NED	53.5%	21
20	Frances Tiafoe	USA	53.1%	49
21	Miomir Kecmanovic	SRB	53.1%	24
22	Alejandro Tabilo	CHI	52.9%	33
23	Alexander Blockx	BEL	52.8%	25
24	Arthur Fery	GBR	52.8%	16
25	Mariano Navone	ARG	52.7%	21
26	Rafael Jodar	ESP	52.5%	44
27	Lorenzo Musetti	ITA	52.4%	26
28	Juan Manuel Cerundolo	ARG	52.3%	21
29	Cameron Norrie	GBR	52.2%	29
30	Ugo Humbert	FRA	52.1%	32
31	Fabian Marozsan	HUN	52.0%	24
32	Flavio Cobolli	ITA	51.9%	44
33	Jiri Lehecka	CZE	51.9%	39
34	Terence Atmane	FRA	51.8%	31
35	Stefanos Tsitsipas	GRE	51.7%	33
36	Matteo Berrettini	ITA	51.7%	26
37	Jaume Munar	ESP	51.6%	16
38	Arthur Rinderknech	FRA	51.4%	27
39	Alex Michelsen	USA	51.4%	32
40	Luciano Darderi	ITA	51.2%	32
41	Martin Landaluce	ESP	51.1%	20
42	Francisco Cerundolo	ARG	50.9%	37
43	Jaime Faria	POR	50.9%	19
44	Jenson Brooksby	USA	50.9%	21
45	Felix Auger-Aliassime	CAN	50.8%	41
46	Alexander Bublik	KAZ	50.8%	28
47	Nuno Borges	POR	50.7%	28
48	James Duckworth	AUS	50.7%	16
49	Andrey Rublev	—	50.6%	35
50	Rinky Hijikata	AUS	50.6%	18

39 further qualified ATP players are outside the top 50; the full field is sortable in the ATP stat explorer on Stat Leaders.

WTA second-serve points won leaders 2026

Aryna Sabalenka leads the WTA with 53.4% of second-serve points won in 2026, measured over 54 qualifying matches — the most of any qualified WTA player this season. Yuliia Starodubtseva (52.0%) and Hailey Baptiste (51.5%) are next. 80 WTA players qualify, and the median of that field is 45.9%.

WTA second-serve points won leaders, 2026 season — top 50 of 80 qualified players, ranked by 2nd serve won %, with the match sample behind each figure.
#	Player	Country	2nd serve won %	Matches
1	Aryna Sabalenka	—	53.4%	54
2	Yuliia Starodubtseva	UKR	52.0%	25
3	Hailey Baptiste	USA	51.5%	22
4	Elena Rybakina	KAZ	51.4%	61
5	Karolina Muchova	CZE	50.7%	43
6	Iga Swiatek	POL	50.2%	44
7	Jessica Pegula	USA	50.1%	63
8	Belinda Bencic	SUI	50.0%	32
9	Iva Jovic	USA	49.6%	42
10	Maja Chwalinska	POL	49.5%	17
11	Maria Sakkari	GRE	49.3%	28
12	Diana Shnaider	—	48.8%	43
13	Naomi Osaka	JPN	48.8%	37
14	Mirra Andreeva	—	48.7%	58
15	Sloane Stephens	USA	48.7%	15
16	Alexandra Eala	PHI	48.3%	44
17	Jasmine Paolini	ITA	48.3%	28
18	Victoria Mboko	CAN	48.2%	29
19	Sorana Cirstea	ROU	48.2%	36
20	Anna Bondar	HUN	48.1%	21
21	Taylor Townsend	USA	48.1%	21
22	Amanda Anisimova	USA	47.9%	33
23	Antonia Ruzic	CRO	47.6%	20
24	Linda Noskova	CZE	47.5%	45
25	Sara Bejlek	CZE	47.4%	22
26	Maya Joint	AUS	47.4%	17
27	Elena Gabriela Ruse	ROU	47.3%	23
28	Marta Kostyuk	UKR	47.0%	40
29	Leylah Fernandez	CAN	47.0%	35
30	Madison Keys	USA	46.8%	39
31	Ann Li	USA	46.8%	31
32	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	ITA	46.8%	19
33	Elina Svitolina	UKR	46.5%	51
34	McCartney Kessler	USA	46.5%	18
35	Katerina Siniakova	CZE	46.4%	29
36	Panna Udvardy	HUN	46.4%	16
37	Qinwen Zheng	CHN	46.3%	22
38	Shuai Zhang	CHN	46.3%	24
39	Jessica Bouzas Maneiro	ESP	46.0%	17
40	Donna Vekic	CRO	45.9%	21
41	Magda Linette	POL	45.9%	22
42	Nikola Bartunkova	CZE	45.8%	25
43	Zeynep Sonmez	TUR	45.7%	27
44	Peyton Stearns	USA	45.6%	27
45	Liudmila Samsonova	—	45.6%	36
46	Cristina Bucsa	ESP	45.4%	25
47	Yulia Putintseva	KAZ	45.4%	21
48	Anna Kalinskaya	—	45.1%	40
49	Ekaterina Alexandrova	—	45.1%	34
50	Renata Zarazua	MEX	45.1%	15

30 further qualified WTA players are outside the top 50; the full field is sortable in the WTA stat explorer on Stat Leaders.

How second-serve points won is measured

Second-serve points won is total points won behind a second serve divided by total second serves played, expressed as a percentage.

A player qualifies for this board with at least 15 singles matches in the 2026 pool and at least 15 of those matches carrying this statistic. The floor is half the busiest schedule on tour, capped at 15 — a flat 15 would leave the board empty until roughly April, when the pool has barely filled. The Matches column on every row is that player's own denominator, so a number taken over a thin sample is visible as one rather than hidden behind a rank. A tour section is withheld entirely below 25 qualified players.

Coverage and limits

Figures cover Grand Slam, 1000- and 500-level singles matches in 2026, on every surface. 250-level and lower-tier events are not counted, so a player's totals here run below their full-season numbers — which is also why this page ranks a per-match or per-point RATE rather than a season total. A total drawn from a partial pool would be wrong in a way a rate is not.

Second-serve splits share the same source as the first-serve splits, so the two boards draw on the same matches. In the 2026 pool this statistic is recorded for 2,958 of the 3,040 ATP matches (97%) and 2,922 of the 3,298 WTA matches (89%).

Ranks and values on this page are computed over the same pool, so the ordering and the numbers beside it always agree. Drop Shot is not the ATP or the WTA and these are not official tour statistics: they are aggregated from our own match feed, and where a match did not report a statistic it contributes nothing to either the numerator or the denominator.